Transform your Minecraft server into an instant strategic battleground! With this add-on, every player spawns with a portable Chess Board item in their inventory. Simply right-click to place down a fully functional, play-ready 3D chess arena anywhere in your world—no manual building required!
Key Features:
Instant Board Deployment: Start the game and receive a portable chess board item. Right-click any open space to instantly construct a playable board with all 32 pieces set up and ready to go.
3D Blocky Pieces: Command detailed custom 3D models tailored to the classic Minecraft aesthetic, featuring iconic Steves, Knights, Creepers, and Kings.
Interactive & Playable Rules: Click pieces to highlight valid moves, make your plays, and rely on built-in logic for turn enforcement, checks, and automatic checkmate detection.
Multiplayer Ready: Spawn a board anywhere—from a survival shelter to a custom stadium—and immediately challenge a friend or server member to a match.
Survival & Creative Access: Receives auto-distribution on world start, but can also be crafted or spawned via Creative mode for endless rematches.
Drop your board, take your seat, and outsmart your opponents in the ultimate game of tactical strategy!
- Pack type: .mcaddon — behaviour and resource pack in one file
- Manifest requires Minecraft 1.21.100 or newer
- Complete pack — everything it depends on is inside the file
- Download size: 573 KB
- Download link checked 23 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.